This Week’s World News (January 22-28)

All the news the average teen should be aware of…

After more than a year of employee-only testing, the Amazon Go grocery store in Seattle is finally open for business. The premise is simple — just walk in, grab what you want, and then walk out. Probably feels like shoplifting ayeeee

Neil Diamond diagnosed with Parkinson’s and will retire from touring

Tuesday Jan 23

A Student opens fire in his Kentucky high school. Killing 2 and injuring 15

earthquake hits Alaska coast, an astonishing 7.9 and 8.2 magnitude. A tsunami warning was put in place after water levels rose located near the quakes epicenter

VP mike pence visited Jerusalem causing many locals to go on strike and stay home

Oscar nominations revealed

Wednesday Jan 24

Toys r us is going to close down 128 stores in the next few months

Police in Panama City Beach, Florida, have charged two 12-year-old middle-school students with cyberstalking after the suicide of another student.

The Doomsday Clock has been set to two minutes to midnight for the year 2018, the closest it has been to midnight since the 1950s.

Pope Says Fake News Is Evil, Compares It to Serpent in the Garden of Eden

At least 33 people killed in South Korea Hospital

Elton John will retire after his final world tour

Scientist cloned monkeys using a technique the used with dolly the sheep

Thursday Jan 25

Playing in his first PGA-sanctioned tournament in 12 months, Tiger Woods finished the first round in the Farmers Insurance Open. Course at Torrey Pines, San Diego, CA

President Donald Trump is proposing giving 1.8 million young undocumented immigrants a pathway to citizenship in exchange for $25 billion for his long-promised wall and a host of other strict immigration reforms

In less than 3 months, Cape town, South Africa will likely run out of water

Trump at World Economic Forum

Grumpy Cat’s owner was awarded $700,000 in a copyright dispute. The cat still won’t smile.

Newly discovered jawbone means humans left Africa Earlier than we thought. Found in a collapsed cave in Israel.

1.1 million people logged in to watch Bernie Sander’s talk universal Medicare